#phrase

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single girl of high standing at Longbourn Academy must be in want of a prom date. ↗

— Elizabeth Eulberg

#humor #paraphrased #parody #dating

You remember all those phrases about how "these people" - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#any #around #asians #certainly #children

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#food #foodie #food

Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#paraphrased #humor

Today is the last day of some of your life. Don't waste it." quote from Tara Daniels ↗

— Jill Shalvis

#life

The unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining. ↗

— Tracy Thompson

#life

The wind blew my words away from you. So while I told you I love you, the phrase was carried in the opposite direction and landed 333 miles away in the ears of a confused farmer. He was nice, though. He sent me a kind letter saying that while he was flattered, I wasn’t really his type. 
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#distance #farmer #farmers #kindness #land

There is no God and we are his prophets. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#paraphrased #religion #religion

Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#paraphrased #influence

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. ↗

— Guy Debord

#embraces #erases #expressions #false #his